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At Last She Said It is a podcast that seeks to amplify and explore a variety of voices, stories, ideas and experiences of Mormon women.
Some things in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seem to be changing more regularly than they have in the past. Many members h...
"The spiritualities of all great world religions teach us letting go, or how to step aside," writes Richard Rohr. Letting go is an intention...
In Episode 259, Susan and Cynthia ask Mer, Zinah, and Carol, What Do You Say? It's the second installment of ALSSI's wide-ranging conversati...
ALSSI doesn't usually focus on church announcements or events, but our conversations about Big Ideas do exist within the current context of...
Is there a richer text for Christians than the Beatitudes? Yet we don't all think or teach about them the same way. Many Latter-day Saints t...
Shadow Work is a phrase that gets a lot of airplay, but it can be hard to get your head around exactly what it means or how it can apply in...
In Episode 255, Cynthia and Susan ask Aubrey Chaves, Debbie Squires-Coleman, and Darice Auston, "What Do You Say?" It's 3 wide-ranging conve...
Does piety serve anything besides the ego? Is our piety an asset or a liability? And what are we—individually and collectively—getting from...
When Latter-day Saints hear the phrase "Purity Culture," they may associate it more with evangelical churches than with our own. LDS talks a...
Many Latter-day Saint women feel some constraint when it comes to using our voices at church, but it can even be hard to express what we thi...
For 6 years, Susan and Cynthia have been asking podcast guests, "What do you know?" In Season 11, they'll be asking a variety of Latter-day...
How do you feel about sin? Richard Rohr describes our inevitable human missteps as essential to our growth when he says, "Not doing it right...
Latter-day Saints consider ours to be a non-credal religion, yet nearly all our Articles of Faith begin with the phrase, "We believe...." We...
Latter-day Saints are often told that the contemporary Church is built on the same model Jesus Christ used to establish His church. In this...
Curiosity should feel foundational for Latter-day Saints—it's the birthplace of our religious tradition. Any member of the Church can recite...
In a podcast season devoted to talking about change, it makes sense to revisit some previously covered topics to see whether there's been an...
Every four years, D&C 132 comes around for study again. If you ask a Latter-day Saint woman what she keeps on her metaphorical faith "shelf,...
Though Section 89 of the Doctrine & Covenants describes itself as a "principle with promise," "to be sent by greeting, not by commandment or...
Each Latter-day Saint's path looks different, a combination of unique experiences, choices, and challenges. No matter how insistent our cult...
No matter what language we use to describe the Divine, for spiritual seekers the hope is that our understanding and connection will continue...
Was Joseph Smith a mystic? Searching for the term 'mysticism' on the Church website yields, "See: False Doctrine, Sorcery, Superstitions; Tr...
We can't get enough of these stories! Bonus Episode 240 features more ALSSI listeners answering the question, "What triggered your faith jou...
"Differentiation of self is being a unique individual while maintaining connection with people you love," explains Dr. Julie Hanks. "We've b...
"With always wanting to do the right things, take care of people, and people please, this set me up perfectly to be an all-in member. Doing...
"There's no roadmap for how to do partnership in patriarchy, at least within our little Mormon frame of reference," explains Christine Pagan...
It seems Latter-day Saints most often speak about resurrection in the literal sense: the reuniting of spirit and body. Jesus rising from the...
"In all my angst about if I would marry and if I would have children and if I would have a career, I did not fully consider how the ideals i...
We asked, you answered! In Bonus Episode 234, more women from the ALSSI community share their stories in response to the question: What trig...
"Deconstruction doesn't just happen to lazy learners," says Jen Dille. "It's often the most true-blue Mormons and the people who are all in...
Diana Butler Bass wrote, "To belong is to be, for belonging is ultimately a question of identity: Who am I?" For many Latter-day Saint women...
What triggered your faith journey? In this short bonus episode, more women from the ALSSI community share their answers!
"I can take as long as I need on the edge of the chasm of the unknown," writes Jody England Hansen. "I can experience the terror of moving i...
How can we know if we're getting it right when it comes to meeting others with empathy? "Empathy is a tool of compassion," writes Brene Brow...
For many Latter-day Saint women, a faith journey begins as their personal experiences pile up and dots begin to connect. Abby Maxwell Hansen...
What triggered your faith journey? In Bonus Episode 227, 10 women share their answers.
Sometimes it's hard to untangle specific beliefs from our ideas about faith. Is struggling with church policies or doctrinal tenets an indic...
"I have always felt the gentle nature of Jesus being one of the most resonating parts of what I saw and knew as the gospel, and I always ima...
Maya Angelou said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." When things start to get shifty in your faith life,...
"There is hope in the certainty that things do change," writes Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg. But there is also real anxiety in the certa...
In this bonus episode, Susan and Cynthia share and discuss a few voicemails from the ALSSI mailbag. The male gaze, sad heaven, organizationa...
TW: Emotional Abuse and Physical Abuse Members of the Church don't talk much about polygamy, but isn't it time we did? After all, it continu...
How much in the Church is still, in 2025, coming to us through the male lens? Pretty much all of it. Our scriptures, doctrine, ward boundari...
Linda Hamilton explains, "I spent my whole life believing that spirituality was in big things. Visions from heaven, angels, signs. We always...
Therapist C.A. Larson defines a high-demand religion as "a religious group that exerts significant control over its members' beliefs, behavi...
"We have direct access to light and knowledge and power, and we have the right—the divinely given right—to take that power, even if it says...
These days it seems Latter-day Saints talk about the importance of temple attendance in almost every meeting and lesson. It makes sense: in...
Shibboleths are customs, traditions, words, or phrasings that distinguish one group of people from another. Latter-day Saints have a lot of...
"Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a book about girls who ask great questions?" This question from a 9-year-old inspired authors McArthur K...
"What is it like to be an introvert in a church that really supports extroversion?" When therapist C.A. Larson asked this question in a prev...
"My faith is this process of evolving, ebbing, flowing, forming, reforming, shaping, shape shifting," explains Kathie Debenham. It's no surp...